Answer:
The setting.
Explanation:
The setting of any story or text is the geographical location or any indication of time or place that can tell the readers about where the scene is taking place. It also provides the detail about what the scene looks like.
In the given excerpt from "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Sterling, Charlie's dialogue provides the setting of the particular scene. His description of the blue sky, with <em>"[no] cloud. No lightning. No thunder. No nothing"</em> gives us an image of how the sky would look like in that scene.
Thus, the correct answer is the setting.
Hammer and Anvil Technique
The hammer and anvil technique for removing flakes from a core is perhaps one of the oldest documented methods. It is quite effective for making large flakes for direct use as tools, or for use as blanks from which shaped tools can be made. This technique entails using the core as a hammer, and striking the edge of the core against a large, stationary rock (the anvil) in order to remove a flake.
Bipolar Technique
The bipolar technique is a modification of the hammer and anvil technique. In bipolar flaking, the core is placed on the anvil for support, and then struck with a large heavy hammer. The compression from both ends of the core cause it to shatter into hundreds of flakes, some of which will be large enough, and of the right shape for use as tools. This technique is often found in areas where the only reliable source of workable stone is rounded river cobbles that are extremely hard to work in any other fashion.
Answer: Yet there were some who broke with tradition, both at home and on the battlefield. Here are 10 of history’s fiercest warriors who not only had to face their enemies, but also the strict gender roles of their day. 1. Fu Hao (d. c. 1200 BC) The tomb of Fu Hao. Credit: Chris Gyford (Wikimedia Commons).
Explanation:
Sectionalism was very much a part of the Missouri Compromise, with two main sections of the country -- North vs. South -- divided over the issue of slavery.
The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state with Maine being added at the same time as a free state, to keep the balance of slave and free states equal. The Missouri Compromise also prohibited any future slave states north of the latitude line 36 1/2 degrees north of the equator in territories of the Louisiana Purchase, with the exception of Missouri (north of that line) being admitted as a slave state.
A couple decades later, that sectional debate was sparked still further by the acquisition of lands from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. The Mexican Cession was the large region of land that Mexico ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. It included territory that would later become the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of what would become Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. The Mexican Cession reignited tension on the issue of slave-holding states vs. free states. Since the Missouri Compromise had specified only the Louisiana Purchase lands with its 36 1/2 degrees latitude dividing line, new debate arose over whether territories in the Mexican Cession territory would be slave or free states.
